Pamela Blackwood Naaman

1949 - 2025

Pamela Blackwood Naaman
10/08/1949 - 11/19/2025
It is with great pride in a life well lived that Pamela Blackwood Naaman's family announces her passing on October 19, 2025.

Pam was born in Hot Springs Arkansas in 1949, and moved as a toddler to Galveston, Texas.

She went on to attend Ball High School there, graduating in 1967.
She later studied nursing at San Jacinto College in Houston, graduating with an Associate of Science degree in 1977.

She met her husband, Adam Naaman, when they were set up on a blind date by a colleague. He remembers that they went to dinner and that she looked beautiful.

She moved with him to upstate New York in "maybe 1979?*" But only after extracting a promise that her new boyfriend would love and cherish her Siamese cats, Daisy and Racer.

She and Adam married in "I think 1980 or 81*," after which Pam demonstrated the ultimate devotion by moving with him to Bismarck, North Dakota, where winter temperatures reached -60. "My mother always told me never to be pregnant in the summer," Pam remembered. "She didn't know I'd end up pregnant in the winter in [expletive] North Dakota." That's where son Michael Travis was born in 1982.

After another year or so in Bismarck, they decamped for the warmer climate of Houston, Texas. Once Michael was in kindergarten, Pam joined her husband's medical practice as his staff nurse, keeping his schedule on track, and providing a warm and humorous counterpoint to Dr. Naaman's occasional blunt seriousness. To maintain professional appearances, she used her maiden name at work. And when patients would ask if Dr. Naaman was married, she'd reply, "He is. HAPPILY."

The couple retired in "2000 something,*" and proceeded to travel the world, visiting Italy, Australia, Japan, and many other countries. When the travel quieted down, Pam busied herself by opening a five-star backyard buffet for neighborhood birds and squirrels and possums and cats, sometimes turning the hose on them to break up any resulting turf wars or food fights.

She also loved gardening, reading, and a good lunch and gossip with her friends Sandra and Susan.

She was very proud of her only child: Dr. Michael Naaman. In the 2010s, she was overjoyed to become a grandmother to Michael's children, Charlie Danger and Toni Legend. She loved to bake cookies with them, and….tried really hard to understand what was going on with that Minecraft game.

She is preceded in death by her parents: Frances Sam and Husband Joe Sam, Knox Blackwood and Wife Mary Blackwood, her cats Daisy, Racer, Ernie, and Betsy, her grandcat Jack Bauer, and granddog Bo.

She is survived by husband Adam, brother Brad and his wife Brenda, child Michael, step-daughter Lara, nephew Brian, grandchildren Toni and Charlie, and grandcats, Alex and Nala.